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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Red Cloud's War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the reservation where the Navajo are forced to live?
(a) Amarillo
(b) Qualla Indian Boundary
(c) Bosque Redondo
(d) Fort Defiance

2. What fort is involved in Little Crow's War?
(a) Fort Pierce
(b) Fort Apache
(c) Fort Ridgely
(d) The Alamo

3. In 1865 the US government sends what group to the Missouri river basin?
(a) A peace commission
(b) A congressional task force
(c) New soldiers fresh from the Civil War
(d) General Sherman's army

4. Where is Little Crow finally defeated?
(a) The Little Big Horn River
(b) The Rio Grande River
(c) The Yellow Medicine River
(d) The Washita River

5. What famous scout gains the trust of the Navajo?
(a) Bat Masterson
(b) Kit Carson
(c) Cochise
(d) Meriweather Lewis

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author, Dee Brown say the Indians learned their savage practices?

2. What was located between the Pecos mountains and the Rio Grande?

3. In 1868 what does Red Cloud do?

4. Why do the Sioux move into the Black Hills?

5. At what location are most of the Cheyennes Indians massacred?

(see the answer key)

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